Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The phoenix of these late times: or the life of Mr. Henry Welby, esq; who lived at his house in Grub-street forty foure yeares, and in that space, was never seene by any, aged 84. Shewing the first occasion, and the reasons thereof. Whose portracture, you may behold, as it was taken at his death. With epitaphs and elegies of the late deceased gentleman, who lyeth buried in S. Giles church neere Criple gate, London.

Accession number
PML 79379
Creator
Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641.
Published
London: Printed by N. Okes, and are to be sold by Richard Clotterbuck at his shop in little Brittaine, at the signe of the golden ball, 1637.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-F⁴.
This edition ends on F3; the last leaf is blank.
Variant: title has ".. by any. Aged 84.".
Frontispiece portrait is signed: WM sculpt:, i.e. William Marshall.
PML copy previously incorrectly identified as STC 25227.
Description
[52] p. frontispiece (engraved portrait) 19 cm (4to)
Provenance
Douce family, of Debtling, Kent, armorial bookplate with motto: Celer et vigilans (front pastedown); Almon Whiting Griswold, armorial binding; likely from Theodore Irwin, purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Brown morocco by William Pratt, with Griswold arms on front cover.
Classification
Department